Preamble

The House met at Quarter before Three of the clock, Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair.

MEMBERS SWORN.

Mr. SPEAKER: I think that it will be for the convenience of hon. Members desirous of taking the Oath to follow the same course as we did on Thursday last. That is to say, that hon. Members should occupy seats below the Gangway on the Government side, and should proceed in single file down the Gangway and take the Oath and sign the Roll, and then pass along by the table. We shall begin with the Government Front Bench and then take the Front Opposition Bench, and after that we shall take the fourth Bench below the Gangway, then the third, then the second and then the first.

The following Members took the Oath or made the Affirmation required by Law, and signed the Roll:—

Right honourable E. S. Montagu, County of Cambridge.

Right honourable (Sir Albert H. Stanley, Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne.

Right honourable Sir Frederick G. Banbury, City of London.

Sir J. Ashton Lister, County of Gloucester (Stroud Division).

Thomas Davies, esquire, County of Gloucester (Cirencester and Tewkesbury Division).

Daniel M. Wilson, esquire, County of Down (West Division).

Dr. Donald Murray, Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty (Western Isles Division).

F. A. Macquisten, esquire, Borough of Glasgow (Springburn Division).

Sir Robert Woods, Borough of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth, near Dublin.

Sir Francis Douglas Blake, County of Northumberland (Berwick-upon-Tweed Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Rhys Williams, County of Oxford (Banbury Division).

Sir Henry Percy Harris, Borough of Paddington (South Division).

Commander P. T. Dean, Borough of Blackburn.

Charles Albert M'Curdy, esquire, Borough of Northampton.

Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Peel, County of East Suffolk (Woodbridge Division).

Major C. D. Murray, Borough of Edinburgh (South Division).

James Fitzalan Hope, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Central Division).

Dr. Hugh A. Anderson, County of Londonderry (North Division).

T. W. Brown, esquire, County of Down (North Division).

Captain G. W. E. Bowyer, County of Bucks (Buckingham Division).

Colonel William James Allen, County of Armagh (North Division).

Dr. Bouverie F. P. M'Donald, Borough of Wallasey.

Major William Phillips Colfox, County of Dorset (Northern Division).

Sir Arthur Fell, Borough of Great Yarmouth.

Colonel Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Borough of Wakefield.

Major C. L. Ward-Jackson, County of Hereford (Leominster Division).

Matthew Vaughan-Davies, esquire, County of Cardigan.

Sidney Robinson, esquire, County of Brecon and Radnor.

C. Jesson, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (West Division).

Major Sir Keith Fraser, County of Leicester (Harborough Division).

Captain the honourable R. E. C. L. Guinness, Borough of Southend-on-Sea.

Colonel M. J. Wilson, County of York, West Riding (Richmond Division).

Thomas H. Burn, esquire, Borough of Belfast (St. Anne's Division).

Thomas Moles, esquire, Borough of Belfast (Ormeau Division).

Samuel M'Guffin, esquire, Borough of Belfast (Shankhill Division).

Sir William Barton, Borough of Oldham.

T. Robinson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Stretford Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Royds, County of Parts of Kesteven and Rutland (Grantham Division).

Denis Stanislaus Henry, esquire, County of Londonderry (South Division).

Captain Herbert Dixon, Borough of Belfast (Pottinger Division).

R. J. Lynn, esquire, Borough of Belfast (Woodvale Division).

N. Grattan Doyle, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (North Division).

Brigadier-General H. C. Surtees, Borough of Gateshead.

Colonel Claude Lowther, County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).

Charles Percy, esquire, Borough of Tynemouth.

Commander Ion Hamilton Benn, Borough of Greenwich.

Charles Thomas-Stanford, esquire, Borough of Brighton.

L. Forestier-Walker, esquire, County of Monmouth (Monmouth Division).

Captain Charles Talbot Foxcroft, Borough of Bath.

Right honourable Sir Archibald Williamson, County of Moray and Nairn.

Major the honourable Arthur C. Murray, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Kincardine and Western Division).

Robert P. Houston, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (West Toxteth Division).

Colonel Sir Alan John Sykes, County of Chester (Knutsford Division).

John Lawrence Baird, esquire, County of Warwick (Rugby Division).

Colonel the honourable Sidney Peel, County of Middlesex (Uxbridge Division).

Sir William Middlebrook, Borough of Leeds (South Division).

Right honourable James Henry Thomas, Borough of Derby.

Sir Joseph Larmor, University of Cambridge.

Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Roundell, County of York, West Riding (Skipton Division).

Thomas P. O'Connor, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Scotland Division).

J. Stanley Holmes, esquire, County of Derby (North-Eastern Division).

Horatio W. Bottomley, esquire, Borough of Hackney (South Division).

Harry Mallaby-Deeley, esquire, Borough of Willesden (East Division).

Right honourable George N. Barnes, Borough of Glasgow (Gorbals Division).

Major Sir Bertram G. Falle, Borough of Portsmouth (North Division).

William Graham, esquire, County of Edinburgh (Central Division).

Harold James Glanville, esquire, Borough of Bermondsey (West Division).

Right honourable Sir Gordon Hewart, Borough of Leicester (East Division).

Lieutenant-Commander Harry W. Chilcott, Borough of Liverpool (Walton Division).

Marshall Stevens, esquire, Borough of Eccles.

John Guest, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Hemsworth Division).

Colonel W. R. Campion, County of East Sussex (Lewes Division).

Viscount Duncannon, County of Kent (Dover Division).

Major J. Gordon Jameson, Borough of Edinburgh (West Division).

Major S. Strang Steel, County of Kent (Ashford Division).

Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, esquire, County of Bedford (Luton Division).

John Arthur Ransome Marriott, esquire, Borough of Oxford.

Lieutenant-Colonel the honourable W. E. Guinness, County of West Suffolk (Bury St. Edmunds Division).

Sir Arthur Philip Du Cros, Borough of Wandsworth (Clapham Division).

Right honourable John Herbert Lewis, University of Wales.

Major George L. Courthope, County of East Sussex (Rye Division).

Right honourable David Lloyd George, Carnarvon District of Boroughs.

Right honourable Ernest G. Pretyman, County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).

Sir W. Ellis Hume-Williams, County of Nottingham (Bassetlaw Division).

Walter Frank Perkins, esquire, County of Hants (New Forest and Christchurch Division).

Colonel Sir John Rutherford, Borough of Lancaster (Darwen Division).

ADJOURNMENt.—Resolved, "That this House do now adjourn till Twelve o'clock To-morrow."—[Mr. Pratt.]

Adjourned accordingly at One minute after Six o'clock, till Twelve o'clock Tomorrow, pursuant, to the Resolution of the House this day.